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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
East Ham 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 37—
The source or sources from which information as to the above-mentioned cases was obtained:—
| Source of Information. | No. of Cases. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | |||||||
| Death returns | from local Registrars | 4 | 2 | |||||
| transferable deaths from Registrar General | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| Posthumous notifications | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| "Transfers" from other areas (other than transferable deaths) | 31 | 3 | ||||||
| Other sources if any (specify) (Merchant Seamen) | 2 | — | ||||||
| Notification Register. | ||||||||
| Number of cases of Tuberculosis remaining at the 31st December 1936, on the Registers of Notifications kept by the Medical Officer of Health of the County Borough | Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | Total Cases | |||||
| Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | |||
| 511 | 420 | 931 | 150 | 142 | 292 | 1,223 | ||
| Number of cases removed from Registers during the year by reason inter alia of:— | ||||||||
| 1. Withdrawal of notification | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | |
| 2. Recovery from the disease | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | |
| 3. Death | 64 | 33 | 97 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 110 | |